Toxic Small Alarmone Synthetase FaRel2 inhibits translation by pyrophosphorylating tRNAGly and tRNAThr
Kurata, T.; Takegawa, M.; Ohira, T.; Syroegin, E. A.; Johansson, M. J. O.; Atkinson, G. C.; Polikanov, Y. S.; Garcia-Pino, A.; Suzuki, T.; Hauryliuk, V.
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Translation-targeting toxic Small Alarmone Synthetases (toxSAS) are effectors of bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin systems that pyrophosphorylate the 3-CCA end of tRNA to prevent aminoacylation. toxSAS are implicated in antiphage immunity: phage detection triggers the toxSAS activity to shut down viral production. We show that the toxSAS FaRel2 inspects the tRNA acceptor stem to specifically select tRNAGly and tRNAThr. The 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th base pairs the stem act as the specificity determinants. We show that the toxSASs PhRel2 and CapRelSJ46 differ in tRNA specificity from FaRel2, and rationalise this through structural modelling: while the universal 3-CCA end slots into a highly conserved CCA recognition groove, the acceptor stem recognition region is variable across toxSAS diversity. As phages use tRNA isoacceptors to overcome tRNA-targeting defences, we hypothesise that highly evolvable modular tRNA recognition allows for the escape of viral countermeasures through tRNA substrate specificity switching.
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